@Magnifico: note that Fox Mulder & Dana Scully discovered this problem back in the 1990s, although then the microchips were being implanted with smallpox vaccine. Note also, however, that the trackers, in the 90s, were small grey interplanetary people working in conjunction with evil blackbox folks inside the US government, and that the goal was to set us all up for the final colonial takeover of the planet by the grey ones. Mulder has had little to say to us for many years now, but some of us Believe he is still out there.

Watch the skies.

@Geezer: I think you've got it.

@But Tiger, are moral judgements simply random, or can the details of what are or are not moral actions be derived logically from a base of common agreement at a more fundamental level? I think whether one claims moral high ground and is therefore acting egotistically is a different question. At any rate, discussing morality is not necessarily simply a matter of egotism - there are concrete cause-effect consequences in the real world, and these can be judged with some approximation, although there's no guarantee that we're going to get it all straight, any more than deciding to cross the road at a certain point in time is sure to get you killed/not killed.

@Magnifico: Possible values: (1) driving the unnecessary expensive car affirms value of wealth over & beyond its practical use value; (2) driving such a car affirms the value of, specifically, 'me', the driver, within the social hierarchy, & thereby affirms the values implicit in that hierarchy - obviously self-serving (am not suggesting that this is ALWAYS a bad idea, although I don't have much respect for the overall hierarchy).

@does indeed allow some people to make the claim you mention, which is indeed egotistical. Also eliminates unnecessary cars.